‘Execution wasn’t there but it was dream ball,’ says Peter Siddle

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Siddle, second left, recorded his first hat-trick in any cricket since the age of 13Marc Aspland for The Times

Geoffrey DeanBrisbane

Last updated at 12:01AM, November 26 2010

Bowler was refreshingly honest about moment he became first Australian since Shane Warne 16 years ago to take a hat-trick in an Ashes Test

Like so many earthy people from the bush, Peter Siddle, a woodcutter by trade,
was refreshingly honest about the moment that he became the first Australian
since Shane Warne 16 years ago to take a hat-trick in an Ashes Test.

After felling England’s batting with all the ease of an afternoon’s
logchopping in his favourite Victorian forest, Siddle revealed that his
hat-trick ball to Stuart Broad was not what he had meant to bowl.

“When I got back to the start of my mark, it was very loud out there,” he
said. “The crowd definitely started to pump me up